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The “Sculptures in the Living Desert” are located near Broken Hill in New South Wales. They are an amazing place to visit on a wintery dawn.
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Acrylic on canvas / A few weeks ago I saw some Pukeko at Hoopers Inlet on the Otago Peninsula. I have painted my version of them. They are full of character and quite amusing. I love the colour of their plumage a beautiful indigo blue with black and white. This is contrasted by a brilliant bright scarlet beak and red legs. They can run quite fast. They are swamp birds perferring wetlands.
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Small Hill
by abatOver the road from my place in the country. An area that is planned for subdivision and new houses. I think it’s time to look for a house further away from town. Landscape and trees from digital photo, the sky and clouds are all mine and created in Photoshop.
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Been sitting on this one a while… Put it up for Angela to have a laugh…
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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. Albert Camus (1913 – 1960)
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Tararua Range, after a heavy snow dump, Wairarapa New Zealand
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The Easy Guide to Creating the Orton Effect using Photoshop - UPDATED
by Peter HillThe aim of this Guide is to provide easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions to achieving the Orton Effect without the necessity of bei…
The aim of this Guide is to provide easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions to achieving the Orton Effect without the necessity of being a Photoshop guru. I still call myself “new to Photoshop” and I have found a lot of tutorials on this topic assume a much higher level of knowledge than I have and are not very intuitive. I have revised the Tutorial to show a shortcut to the 2 Blending Option steps, which I only found myself after posting the original tutorial (doh), but I have left the long way as well, as you may wish to play around with the default settings applied by the short way. To achieve the Orton Effect you will be creating Layers, but don’t worry if you haven’t done this before. I hadn’t. The method I am about to describe is the simplest I have found. It’s not my method, but the description is all mine. When I have more time (yeh, right) I will revise this tutorial to include screenshots of the various steps. But for now, you might like to print this Guide and have it next to you while you create your first Orton Effect. I use Photoshop CS2 v9. The method described below originally came from someone using Photoshop Elements, so you can see this is not advanced stuff. The steps described below assume almost zero knowledge of Layering, and ignore other adjustments you might be making to the image, for example Sharpening the image before you start work on it (recommended). Step 1 Choose your image. Any image will do, you are just learning at this stage, but if you have that favourite flower shot or portrait – cool. Step 2 Open Photoshop. Open the image you have selected to be your first amazing Orton Effect image. Feel the excitement. This is your Background Layer. Step 3 Look for the Layer toolbox on the right hand side of the Photoshop work area. There should be a rectangular box with a small eye icon, a tiny thumbnail version of your image, and the word Background in italics. Right-click the word Background and select Duplicate Layer. A small box should immediately appear in the middle of your screen. It is asking you to Name the Duplicate Layer. Name this Layer Focus and click Enter. (Note: It doesn’t really matter what you name it, but Focus will do for our current purpose.) Step 4 There should now be a new rectangular box immediately above the original, and called Focus. (If there isn’t, stop, curse quietly, then try Step 3 again.) Pause now and look at the tiny eye icon. You will see that it is now the Focus layer on your screen, so this is the “copy” you are working on. OK, moving on ….. Right-click the Focus rectangular box and select Duplicate Layer again. This time when the naming box appears just click Enter because we will use the default name for this Layer, being Focus copy. Step 5 OK, now we are going to blend the Focus copy. There are 2 ways to do this – the long way and the short way. I will show you the long way first, just in case you want to go back and play with it after you get familiar with the process. Long way – Right-click the Focus copy rectangular box and select Blending Options. This will open a new box with lots of options. Ignore them for now. In the top part of this box you will find a window showing the Blending Mode and the default setting of Normal with a pull-down menu (A downwards arrow). Open the menu (left-click) and select Screen. Click Enter to close the box. OR Short way – look at the window which shows your layers. See the drop down menu at the top left, showing Normal as the default? Scroll down the menu and select Screen. The Focus copy layer should now have a bit of a washed-out look to it as a result of selecting Screen as the Blending Mode. (I have found that if the Screen effect still leaves a fairly good image, the Orton Effect will be enhanced. Too washed out and the Effect is diminished.) Step 6 Right-click the Focus copy rectangular box again, only this time select Merge Down (it’s near the bottom of the menu). This will collapse the Focus copy layer onto the Focus layer. Step 7 Right-click the Focus rectangular box again and select Duplicate Layer again. Name this copy Blur. Click Enter to close the box. Step 8 Now, find and open the Filter menu on the Tool bar running across the top of your screen. Select Blur. Another menu should open. Select Gaussian Blur (don’t ask). A new window should open. You will see a Preview of the image with a default blur Radius setting of 15.9. You can play around with the radius later. For now, just click OK to close the window as we will accept the 15.9 (I have found 15.9 to be right for most images anyway). The blur you are to achieve with this step should be enough to discern the shapes without the detail. Step 9 – The Magic Happens! This is the fun part. We now make one more blending option. Again, here’s the long way and the short way. Long way – Right-click the Blur rectangular box and select Blending Options. As described in Step 5, this will open a new box with lots of options. Again, ignore them for now. In the top part of this box you will find a window showing the Blending Mode and the default setting of Normal with a pull-down menu (A downwards arrow). Open the menu (left-click) again and this time select Multiply. Click Enter to close the box. OR Short way – Click on the same drop down menu you used to create the Screen effect, only this time select Multiply. You should now be able to see the Orton Effect! Step 10 If you want to accept the result, right-click the Blur rectangular box one more time and this time select Flatten Image (it’s the last option on the menu). This basically collapses all the layers into one final image and is the last thing you do in Layering. You can now save the image as normal. Does it look something like this? If it looks too dark though, you can adjust the Opacity level with the sliding bar before flattening the image. Look for the tiny Opacity tool in the top right of the Layering toolbox. But if you find you need to go below 90% the Effect is significantly lost and maybe it wasn’t the right image. Another option is to adjust the Fill and leave the Opacity at 100%. Have fun! I am. Peter
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If you are not prepared to give up your past, you may as well ride back into it.
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A fact never to be underestimated – someone, out there, may still call this their birthplace. It captured my attention while in the car on my way south. A short walk on the gravel road is all it took to reach the old house that parted with its best years sometime in the last millennium. That colour, the textures of decaying wood, rusting roof and the remains of the dead tree, fallen where it lived, still searching with its long fingers for the occupants, long gone. I was mesmerised by the scene. There is something profoundly sad about the remains of buildings, any kind of ruins. Is it because they remind us of the inevitable and our disposability in this world. And all the usual questions: how old is it, who lived in it, and will it make it to the next autumn or even next week? Time to go, I had better move. The sky of ‘I mean business’ colour has been gathering strength for a while. Its forward party already seized the strategic heights from the playful patches of the late afternoon sun. When it hits, it will hit hard. On the way back, just one more look … enough time to take another breath of impressions, to treasure, and an image to share, with you.
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Photographed at the Forest Hills Cemetery around Attica, New York (USA). Nikon D80, 18-135mm
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Oil Pastel And Acrylic On Wood (With Minor Digital Enhancements) Ophelia wishes all of us a great new year in 2009 filled with hopes and promises, it’s time to usher in the new things in our life! This is an all-occasion card, for birthday greetings, party invitations, congratulations and of course new year greetings :D You can view and buy my other “The Old Has Gone, The New Has Come” creations from my Zazzle Gallery:
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We had been shooting since 6.30am after racing into the city to capture the fog. We started at the Royal Botanic Gardens and slowly made our way around to Bennelong Point. The morning was crisp, bright, quiet, still, and the light was sensational. At the Opera House the cleaning crews were at silent, diligent work. One of several working on the steps, this young lady was not in a hurry and indeed was quite intent on her task. I had plenty of time to compose the shot and she was not even aware of my presence. Canon EOS 5D Mark II / Canon EF 24-105mm f4-5.6L zoom lens / Filter: UV / Focal Length: 47mm / ISO: 50 / Speed: 1/80 sec / WB: Auto / Focus: AF / Style: Monochrome / Image: single JPEG, cropped Featured by the Dimensions Group August 2009 / Featured by the Black & White Photography Group September 2009 / Featured by the Style! Class! Elegance! Excellence! Group September 2009 / Featured by the Stairs And Staircases Group October 2009 / Featured by the Contrasting Perceptions Group November 2009 / Featured by the That One Great Shot Group November 2009 / Tied for First Place in the Best Shot of a Public Building Challenge November 2009
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This would have been the area where people would Check-in, when staying at the “Castle on the Hill”. There is the client counter in the center of the photo. Dansville, NY / Nikon D80 ~ 18-135mm ~ ISO100 N 42° 34’ 6.34” / W 77° 41’ 23.17”
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View more work from this series Taken through the window from the passenger seat while driving north along the New England Highway. Best viewed LARGE
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Acrylic on canvas / This is quite a change for me. / Abstracted view across Otago harbour (New Zealand) during the winter, with tussock grass mounds in foreground and the Otago peninsula in the background. / This was a Masters Art Challenge, I had to paint in the style of an artist – Marilyn Webb. I used different media…acrylic instead of watercolour and chalk.pastel on paper. / Drybrush technique was used for the sky.
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All work in this portfolio is © Stephanie Rachel Seely. / These materials (images and poems) may NOT be edited, copied, reproduced, printed, distributed, displayed, performed, or used in any way, in whole or in part, without my written permission. Please respect copyright and do not save or upload any images or poems to Photobucket, Flickr, Myspace, Facebook etc. These creative materials are NOT public domain. Won the One Plus Sky challenge – November 8, 2009 Photo taken July 19, 2009 at the Kent Hills Wind Farm just outside Moncton, New Brunswick. It currently consists of 32 wind turbines. These things are huge! I climbed the stairs to the service door and looked up. This is probably my favourite shot of the day because these 2 blades look like arms embracing the wind and (hopefully) the future of better energy sustainability. One of the turbines recently caught fire, causing approximately $5 000 000 in damage.
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Ringwood, NJ / October 2009 Nikon D300 / Manual / 18-200mm / Raw
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Storm King Mountain / Storm King / New York Nikon D300 / Manual / 18-200mm / Raw
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About This Painting / Moonshine lies between Wellington and the southern end of the Tararua Ranges. In the days when I was getting into the hills most weekends, this was a very favorite place to go for day trips. The name is quite evocative – it makes one think of mystery, intrigue, rural living, and for some reason it also conjures up overtones of moonlight and benevolent magic. From out in these hills one did in fact get some quite magical glimpses of Wellington Harbour, the beauty of which is hard to beat on a good day. I doubt these hills are in tussock now – they have probably been converted to pine plantations, which would be a pity because the bare shapes of the rippling hills and the golden tussock grass were a joy to walk in. This sketch doesn’t show much topography, but for me it encapsulates the unique, mysterious atmosphere of the place. Acrylic on canvas board. About The Giclee Prints About The Framed and Matted Prints Featured in my ‘Atmospherics’ Calendar: /
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Storm King / New York Nikon D300 / Manual / 1/100 / f/5.6 / ISO 500 / 200 mm / Raw Featured in the Group: All About New York State / Featured in the Group: JPG Cast-Offs /
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About This Painting / I live underneath this rock – or more accurately, nearly underneath it. There is a small gut between my place and the rock, so if it ever decided to fall down, I am not in the immediate line of fire. I wouldn’t like my chances if it ever decided to erupt again, though. The rock is called Orotere which means Flying Pigeon. There’s one in the painting – the Kereru or native pigeon of New Zealand. See my other painting of the Kereru . Acrylic on canvas board. About The Giclee Prints About The Framed and Matted Prints Featured in my ‘Atmospherics’ Calendar: /
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Ancient cypress tress line the limestone shores of the clear waters of the Guadalupe River in Gruene, Texas near New Braunfels. GUADALUPE RIVER. The Guadalupe River rises in two forks in western Kerr County. Its North Fork begins just south of State Highway 41, four miles from the Real-Kerr county line (at 30°06’ N, 99°39’ W), and runs east for twenty-two miles to its confluence with the South Fork, near Hunt (at 30°04’ N, 99°20’ W). The South Fork rises three miles southwest of the intersection of State Highway 39 and Farm Road 187 (at 29°56’ N, 99°35’ W) and runs northeast for twenty miles to meet the North Fork. After the two branches converge, the Guadalupe River proper flows southeast for 230 miles, passing through Kerr, Kendall, Comal, Guadalupe, Gonzales, DeWitt, and Victoria counties. It then forms the boundary between southern Victoria County and Calhoun County and between Calhoun and Refugio counties before reaching its mouth on San Antonio Bay (at 28°26’ N, 96°48’ W). The Guadalupe’s principal tributaries are the Comal and the San Marcos rivers. Its drainage area is about 6,070 square miles. The upper Guadalupe flows across part of the Edwards Plateau. Near the river, high limestone bluffs support bald cypress, mesquite, and grasses. The Balcones fault line, which the river crosses near New Braunfels, marks the transition to the coastal plains. Sections of the upper and middle reaches of the river are suitable for canoeing, but a number of small waterfalls prevent uninterrupted navigation of the entire river. The lower Guadalupe is generally much quieter and has more sand bars that lend themselves to camping and day use. Excerpt from Texas Online Handbook
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